In my honest opinion John Macarthur is already filled with the Holy Ghost. He shows the fruit of it in his life. He is a lover of the truth. He is a great man of God. He is not perfect but he is honestly trying to warn people just how dangerous "a little leaven is". I wish I could say the same of Rick Warren.

I did Rick Warren's 40 days of purpose "programme" about 4 years ago. It is a works based programme that puts the focus on "self help", (with a Biblical veneer) for the purpose of bringing about "Christian Sanctification". It does not work!! Only the true Gospel of God's grace empowered by His Holy Spirit can bring about true sanctification.

Rick Warren has made multiple tens of millions of dollars out of the ‘Purpose Driven Life’ (a lot of this from the non Christian world; they love self help books). Many think that "Might is Right".

John Macarthur has a high profile in the Christian world and is held in very high regard by many Christians. It takes a man of his profile and courage to have enough credibility to sound this sort of alarm bell. Hopefully some will listen.

"It must be stated that the criticism shown by John MacArthur was only part of a longer message and may have been taken out of context. But that part which was shown was not what should be passed on as a positive and informing article for people to consider. John MacArthur is a gifted orator and well respected theologian who has a lot to contribute to the Christian world. But his criticism, referred to by your website, shows a remarkable lack of grace and an un-justified arrogance. His criticism is out of place due to the fact that he clearly does not understand the purpose of "The Purpose Driven Life" which is in my view, to energize the church to stop being pew-warmers and to become involved and part of a living church. It does not aim to convert non-christians, but has the aim to "convert" Christians to take up their God given tasks within His Kingdom. As John Crouch so aptly states, it would be exciting if John MacArthur "were to be filled by the Holy Ghost". He would than show an all-encompassing grace and approach issues from a more humble and objective angle rather than the negative judgmental angle which was shown in this clip. To quote a few sentences taken at random from a book and base a critique on that is not a critique at all, but rather a breaking down of something which has helped many Christians individually as well as many churches to reach more of their God-given potential. I am disappointed that your reference to this clip was given without an accompanying comment to this effect. Many of the youtube clips shown on the website which were referred to do carry a negative message and are often very sensationalist in content. We do need to be very discerning with such publications as we do with all materials that we access."

Many thanks to Hugo Vandenbos for his comments above.

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